A friend told me the following story, that happened the semester before I got there.
During the Summer of '96, students at Princeton Seminary had their afternoon of study interrupted by one of those typical Mid-Atlantic Summer thunderstorms that tears out of the northwest just before sundown and shakes the windows and rips apart trees.
After the storm, a group of about a half-dozen students were gathered on the Quad, staring at the Damnation Alley, end-of-the-world miasma of weird colors in the sky as the clouds began to break-up and the setting Sun shone through. Some of them were from California and had never seen this sort of weather before.
President Tom Gillespie, himself from California, was walking from his office to his home, stopped at the group of students. He looked up at the sky for a moment or two. “Just as I thought,” he said. “The Rapture happened” - he looked down at the students, deadpan - “and we’re all still here.”
I am reminded of my character’s Big Speech from an independent film I acted in recently (if vibrotronica sees this: you had to know I was gonna do this). Another character asks me about the Rapture. My response:
By the way, it was really hard to get that whole speech out in one take without screwing up any of it. Particularly “radical apocalyptic theology.”
So, what with this thread, Judge Moore’s supporters down in Alabama, and the recent business involving the attempt to heal the autistic boy in Michigan (see Pit threads), does anyone else think the Rapture is starting to bear a certain resemblance to the B Ark?
According to the Two Olive Trees website (yes, I looked…yeesh), there is gonna be complete darkness today from 3 to 6…but it doesn’t say:
AM, PM, EST, CST, GMT
I’m kinda figuring CST, since that’s the “middle” of the Bible Belt…
Hey everybody, guess what! I got raptured, and now I’m in heaven. The internet connection is really fast here, and you can play any video game you can think of. Like right now, I just thought, “wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an eight-player Joust machine?” and poof! there it was.
Heaven is sweet. I hope it doesn’t get boring, though.
Rod
P.S. Sorry about that nasty car wreck on San Pedro. I didn’t have a chance to pull over or anything.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the LBMB becoming a pay-to-join site. I don’t remember this being mentioning in Revelation specifically, but I never understood all that symbolism anyway.
If it does happen today, could somebody water my plants? Thanks, and YOU ARE ALL GOING TO BURN IN THE FIERY PITS OF HELL FOREVER WHILE DEMONS POUR LIQUID SULPHUR INTO YOUR HEAD AFTER GOUGING OUT YOUR EYES WITH PITCHFORKS, YOU INFIDEL SINNERS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
